Ashes and Stars

In the year 3072 of Ariea, on the seventeenth night when the star paths were reversed, the black mist seeping out of the cracks in the void spread over the northern ice field - five years later, the seal will be broken and everything will be reduced to ashes. Lyra, a half-blood astropath, grasped an astrolabe that was split into three petals, and picked up half a piece of dwarf fire-marked iron under the laurel tree in the abandoned elf capital; the banished dwarf blacksmith Balin was swinging a broken hammer to smelt the first "living fire" in the furnace of Anvil Town. Sparks splashed on the "traitor" mark branded by his family on his chest, making a sizzling sound; and the Southern Temple In the dungeon, former Knight Commander Karen's Holy Light Sword was dripping with black blood - he had pierced the bishop's throat with his own hands to avenge the crime of "collaborating with the enemy" that he was falsely accused of ten years ago; in the northernmost Bloodfang Grassland, the bone flute of the orc shaman Shaya suddenly cracked fine lines, and the voice of her ancestors exploded in her mind: "Go to the west and find the four dying people." When four souls crushed by fate crash into the same shadow, they have to fight more than just the void that is about to tear apart the continent. We must tear apart the lies of the church, the prejudice of race, and the shackles of faith—and exchange ashes for hope like stardust. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.